How reliable are income data collected with a single question?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 409-429

  Micklewright, John ^a   Schnepf, Sylke V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Income data; Measurement; Quality; Social survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950960873     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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